Brazen Jewel Robbery at Brussels Airport Nets $50 Million in Diamonds

Brazen Jewel Robbery at Brussels Airport Nets $50 Million in Diamonds

Just after the weekend, a plane was robbed at a Brazilin international Airport. The target, over $50 Million in diamonds and precious meatless. 18 munities before the place was meant to take off, 8 men armed with Semi-automatic firearms, dressed in police uniforms and driving in homemade police cars, drove through security and right to the plane loaded with millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds. In the small gap that the plane was meant to make it from the loading station to the end of the runway for takeoff, the robbers stopped the plane, telling people that they were doing an inspection. A few minutes  later, they had loaded over $50 million dollars’ worth of diamonds into their trucks and sped away. Not only were they fast, professional and mature about the whole situation, but they were smart enough not to draw detention to themselves or even half to fire a shot.

 

Like all robbers, you have to feel that what they are doing is wrong. We are taught that it is wrong to steal even under dire circumstances. But this robbery was very interesting. The men that robbed this plane were very organized. They knew when and where the diamonds were going to be on the plane. They knew the time between takeoff and taxiing from the gate. They knew everything about how their operation was going to go down and they executed it near perfectly aside from missing several packets of diamonds. This was not only a well-planned out operation, but this was one where they knew what they wanted and they did not let anything get in their way. Yes, they were armed but they never needed to kill anyone. 9 times out of 10, when you fire of your guns in a public place, you are not only going to attract media, but security, police. The longer your shoot out goes on, the more willing people are to use more and more deadly resources to have you stopped. They knew this and they made a very clear point in not attracting attention with their firearms. I feel that this was a bad thing to do and that stealing is bad, but at some point you have to give them credit. With the low level crimes and poorly planned out robberies that are made to end with death, once and a while, it is almost nice to see nobody die and people get away with no evidence left behind. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/world/europe/thieves-steal-millions-in-diamonds-at-brussels-airport.html?_r=0